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Subject: new "Opener" on sonata
The new version (3.1.2, Mar 1994) of "Opener" is available by anonymous ftp:
sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/binaries/util/Opener_3.1.2.tar.Z
It is also on cs.orst.edu (in next/submissions, but will eventually
migrate someplace more permanent).
Opener v3.1.2 is a Multi-Architecture Binary (i.e., fat). It runs
on machines running NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later.
Differences from Opener 3.1.1:
- Revised icons for .bin, .hqx, .sit (correct Apple colors)
- Corrected Joe Reiss' e-mail address
- Added support for .compressed filetype
- Eliminated use of 'unsit' when unpacking .hqx files
- Munged mcvert to create only the data fork of a MacBinary file instead
of all resource forks, since this is the only portion needed to open
these files on a NeXT (this concerns .hqx files)
- New versions of 'zip', 'unzip', 'gzip' and 'gunzip'
Opener is a utility that is indispensible for unpacking or creating common
kinds of archived files (.tar, .tar.Z, .shar, .zip, .arc, .arj, .zoo, .gz, etc.). See Opener.app/README.rtfd for details.
The package includes all source and test files.
The executable, Opener.app/Opener is present,
so to install, unpack and drop Opener.app into an Apps folder.
You may wish to remove Opener.app/{test*,utils}, the test files
and the source to archiving utilities (like zoo, arc, xlharc, etc)
which consume about a megabyte. (Look at the Makefile.postamble
for hints about minimal installation steps.)
If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions for future
updates, please contact one of us:
Michael Hawley (original author)
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
mike@media-lab.mit.edu
Denise Blakeley (current maintainer)
Duke University Medical Center Information Systems
blake015@mc.duke.edu
Subrata Sircar (collaborator for v3.1)
NeXT, Inc.
Subrata_Sircar@next.com